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Month: February 2016

Start your day off with a happy three-year-old child who is very active and engaged in play. Every week the child attends the center at 8am-3pm, playing with the same children as always. Week after week the child is still active, engaged, and excited about seeing his or her friends at the child care center.
One day the child is picked up with a high fever and a rash located on different areas of the body.

Now you no longer have an active child who is always on the move, but an inactive child who is undoubtedly sick.

Your first instinct is to ask the center: What? When? How? and Why,but not even the center director has the answer to your questions.

So your second instinct is to call and make an appointment to the doctor’s office explaining the symptoms that your child has.

By the morning, you have reached the doctor, who examines the child, and runs a few test.

In conclusion, the doctor states that your child has Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease.

What is Hand Foot and Mouth Disease?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), researchers have stated that “Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a common viral illness that usually affects infants and children younger than five years old.
The signs and symptoms of this viral disease are fever, reduced appetite, sore throat, and a feeling of being unwell.
CDC also says that painful sores can develop in the mouth, and a skin rash with red spots may also develop over one or two days on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet; As well as on the knees, elbows, buttocks or genital area.

How Do Children Get the Disease?The ways in which a child can contract this virus is:

By being in contact with another child who is infected

If coughing and sneezing is occurring

By being in Contact with feces

or By being contact with contaminated objects and surfaces such as toys, sheets, books, and etc.

How to Prevent the Spread of Hand Foot and Mouth Disease?

Even though this viral disease sounds and is horrible to deal with, there is a way to prevent this common disease from affecting your child:

Washing hands often with soap and water, especially after changing diapers and using the toilet.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Forsyth County donated Duplo Lego sets to various local nonprofits. Work Family Resource Center (WFRC) was one of the agencies selected to distribute these “wildly popular” lego sets among children 2-5 years of age. WFRC has a program called, “Stars and Beyond” that is specifically design for family child care homes to help increase quality, education, and professionalism. Family child care homes participating in the program will receive a Duplo Lego set that will enhance their manipulative center. Below are pictures of some programs that have already received their set. All programs are reporting that the children are very excited and appreciative to have Jake and the Neverland Pirate legos and they play with it on a daily. basis.